Gists By ”I Wanted Fortune Without
Fame” – Damilola Adegbite
Nigerian actress, Damilola Adegbite has
stated that from the onset, she wanted
wealth without being famous.
The television personality in an interview
with Ebuka Obi Uchendu on ‘Rubbin
Minds’revealed she had always desired
affluence but not fame even though she
couldn’t figure out how that could be
attained.
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The movie star confessed it’s been a huge
struggle for her seeing fortune and fame go
side-by-side because she would rather not
be that “popular” personality who’s always
been seen or heard.
“I wanted the fortune without the fame. I
don’t know how I was planning to get that.
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From the beginning my idea was that I
want money. I wasn’t really thinking I
wanted to be famous.
“So, it’s a bit of a conflict for me, honestly.
I struggle with it because, you know, that’s
just who I am. I’m not really someone who
is out there all the time. I don’t like to be
overseen or over heard. I don’t like to be in
peoples’ faces.
“And we all know that like you said
celebrity life it’s important you have to be
in people’s faces like every second of
everyday as much as you can. So honestly,
it’s a bit of a conflict for me,” Adegbite
said.
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However, the Tinsel star noted she’s been
ensuring she maintains a healthy balance
along her career path by keeping constantly
keeping herself in check by making sure
she doesn’t lose herself trying to be
pressured into society’s expectation of her.
The mother of one said:
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“I try my best but
at the same time, I try to keep a healthy
balance where I don’t feel like I’m losing
myself, I don’t know who I am anymore.
“I’m trying not to look at it from the aspect
of o you have to impress people. You have
to give people what they want all the time.
So I’m not feeling constant pressure of o I
have to be this person that everybody
expects me to be.
“So I try to just maintain a healthy balance
as much as I can and it’s been working for
me, it works for me.”